Lahore
1: city in northeast Pakistan
Lahu
1: a Loloish language
laic
1: concerning those not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"; "the choir sings both sacred and secular music" [syn: {lay}, {secular}]
laicise
1: reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools" [syn: {laicize}]
laicize
1: reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools" [syn: {laicise}]
laid low
1: put out of action (by illness) [syn: {laid low(p)}, {stricken}]
laid paper
1: writing paper having a watermark of fine lines running across the grain
laid up
1: ill and usually confined; "laid up with a bad cold" [syn: {laid up(p)}]
laid-back
1: unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow conversation" [syn: {easygoing}, {mellow}]
laid-off
1: having lost your job [syn: {discharged}, {dismissed}, {fired}, {pink-slipped}]
lair
1: the habitation of wild animals [syn: {den}]
laissez faire
1: the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs [syn: {individualism}]
laissez passer
1: a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes" [syn: {pass}]
laissez-faire
1: with minimally restricted freedom in commerce [syn: {individualistic}, {laissez-faire(a)}]
laissez-faire economy
1: an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices [syn: {market economy}, {free enterprise}] [ant: {non-market economy}]
laity
1: everyone except the clergy [syn: {temporalty}] [ant: {clergy}]
Laius
1: (Greek mythology) king of Thebes who was unwittingly killed by his son Oedipus
lake
1: a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land 2: a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal 3: any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
Lake Aral
1: a lake east of the Caspian Sea lying between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan [syn: {Aral Sea}]
Lake Balaton
1: a large shallow lake in western Hungary [syn: {Balaton}, {Plattensee}]
lake bed
1: the bottom of a lake [syn: {lake bottom}]
Lake Cayuga
1: a lake in central New York [syn: {Cayuga Lake}]
Lake Chad
1: a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river [syn: {Chad}]
Lake Champlain
1: a lake in northeastern New York, northwestern Vermont and southern Quebec; site of many battles in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution and in the War of 1812 [syn: {Champlain}]
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Lake Chelan
1: a narrow very deep lake in central Washington in the Cascade Range
Lake District
1: a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain [syn: {Lakeland}]
lake duck
1: common scaup of North America; males have purplish heads [syn: {lesser scaup}, {lesser scaup duck}, {Aythya affinis}]
lake dwelling
1: dwelling built on piles in or near a lake; specifically in prehistoric villages [syn: {pile dwelling}]
Lake Erie
1: the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal [syn: {Erie}]
Lake Eyre
1: a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent [syn: {Eyre}]
Lake Geneva
1: a lake between southwestern Switzerland and France that is crossed from east to west by the Rhone [syn: {Lake Leman}]
lake herring
1: cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward [syn: {cisco}] 2: important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America [syn: {cisco}, {Coregonus artedi}]
Lake Huron
1: the 2nd largest of the Great Lakes [syn: {Huron}]
Lake Ilmen
1: a lake in northwestern Russia; drains through the Volkhov River into Lake Ladoga [syn: {Ilmen}]
Lake Kivu
1: a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda [syn: {Kivu}]
Lake Ladoga
1: a lake in northwestern Russia north of St. Petersburg; the largest lake in Europe; drains through the Neva River into the Gulf of Finland [syn: {Ladoga}]
Lake Leman
1: a lake between southwestern Switzerland and France that is crossed from east to west by the Rhone [syn: {Lake Geneva}]
Lake Mead
1: a large reservoir in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona that is formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area
Lake Michigan
1: the 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest fresh-water lake entirely within the United States borders [syn: {Michigan}]
Lake Nasser
1: lake in Egypt formed by dams built on the Nile River at Aswan [syn: {Nasser}]
Lake Okeechobee
1: a lake in southeast Florida north of the Everglades [syn: {Okeechobee}]
Lake Onega
1: lake in northwestern Russia near the border with Finland; second largest lake in Europe [syn: {Onega}]
Lake Ontario
1: the smallest of the Great Lakes [syn: {Ontario}]
lake poets
1: English poets at the beginning of the 19th century who lived in the Lake District and were inspired by it
Lake Saint Clair
1: a lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie [syn: {Lake St. Clair}]
lake salmon
1: Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada [syn: {landlocked salmon}]
Lake St. Clair
1: a lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie [syn: {Lake Saint Clair}]
Lake Superior
1: the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes [syn: {Superior}]
Lake Tahoe
1: a lake on the border between Nevada and California west of Carson City; a popular resort area
Lake Tana
1: a lake in northwestern Ethiopia; thelargest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile [syn: {Lake Tsana}]
Lake Tanganyika
1: the longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo [syn: {Tanganyika}]
Lake Trasimenus
1: a battle in 217 BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius [syn: {Battle of Lake Trasimenus}]
lake trout
1: flesh of large trout of northern lakes 2: large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States [syn: {salmon trout}, {Salvelinus namaycush}]
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